Pre Columbian America

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Across
  1. 2. had a deep religious belief, believed that when they saw an eagle on a cactus growing on a rock, they were home
  2. 5. a circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles
  3. 6. group of related families
  4. 9. their territory was in present day Machu Picchu in the Cuzco empire
  5. 10. at its height, it covered more than 200 miles of territory
  6. 14. Lived in Mesoamerica between around 1300 BC and AD 1200
  7. 15. to teach or train
  8. 16. a system of knotted strings used by the Inca people to keep records
  9. 17. corn
  10. 18. a geographic region
Down
  1. 1. first people in Mesoamerica to do metalworks with gold, sliver, and copper
  2. 3. to be composed of or made up of
  3. 4. one who resides in a place
  4. 7. wanted to interact with nature instead of dominating it
  5. 8. is done in the land from the Great Lakes down to the Gulf of Mexico because of fertile land
  6. 11. their pottery lets us know more about their history since they didn't have a written language
  7. 12. Iroquois house about 150-250 feet long made from wooden poles and sheets of bark that housed about a dozen families.
  8. 13. things left behind by former residents that help us learn about their past and their culture